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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MÁRCH 31, 1948.

REPORT OF AIR BOMBING

OF

JAFFA WITHDRAWN Koreans More Jews Killed In u.s. Navy Orders.

U.S. Navy Orders Digging Arab Ambushes

Jerusalem, Mar. 29.

The Palestine Government tonight. danied its own carlier statement that a Jewish aircraft had bombed the Arab seaport of Jaffa from the air today. First reports said that three bombs landed near two schools in Jaffa, well outside the mortar range of Jewish gun positions an the borders of Tel Aviv, and that the engine of a plane was heard shortly before they fall. Tonight's Government correction said investigation had proved that the "bombs" were three-inch mortar shells. No official explanation was given for the mistake.

According to reports reach | Army in protracted negotiations ing Jerusalem earlier tonight, with the Arab commanders.

Jewish aircraft was reported to have bombed Jaffa-twin city to the all-Jewish town of Tel Aviv.

near

Jet Planes

•

Burbank, Calif., Mar. 29, The United States Navy bas placed $5,000,000 or der with the Lockheed Air- craft Company for 60 jot 'mirorate of the type P-80, the company announced here to- day,

This fallows the Navy's disclosure that it plans to build up Its own force of carrier-based jet aircraft. Reuter.

God Is His Counsel

British Two

officers wore

Boston, Mass., Car, 29, fread today after being held

Mr. Robert H. Best, 51-year- captive for nearly 24 hours by old American, acted as his own armed Jews who had stolen Litefr Army scout

"God is near lawyer, maintaining CRT Benyamins, In Northern Pales- my counsel", when his trial on treason charges began in the

tina.

A British police sergeant and Federal Court here today. three British soldiers were ser- Beat, a former journalist born tourly wounded and two other in South Carolina, was accused of

broadcasts Zwar-time

for the in

The official Government an- nouncement had said that three bombs, "thought. to have been dropped by planes", landed Freres School and the Greek Orthodox School in British soldiers slightly wounded Jaffa early today. They caus-by Arab snipers in Haifa last Nazis. He lived for 20 years

Vienna. ed slight dainage to the build- |aight, it was oMelally reported.

Eight voluntary witnesses from ings but no casunities were

"Unless appropriate steps" are Germany and Austria flew to the suffered,

taken, the Christian holy places United States earlier this month in Jerusalem may not be into testify at the trial. existence next year, Jewish The maximum penalty for trea- Agency spokesman said here to- day.

stated that

the

The police engine of a plane was heard over Jaffa shortly before the "bombs" feil in a direct line in an area well outside the morter range of Jewish positions on the borders at Tel Aviv.

A Jewish Agency spokesman In Jerusalem said he did not know anything about the air bombing, however,

British Warning

During the Aruh attack on the Jewish convoy south of Bethle- hem during the week-end, four Jewish aircraft hud dropped

coru of anti-personnel bombs on the attucking Aruba, causing three casualties.

A

Govern. British Palestine

blunt Palestine ment warning that the security forces will no longer rescue Jawish convoys if they continue to die. rogard British Instructions and aro attacked by Arabs Was insund here today.

1

Truce Plan?

Welcoming the appeal by Dr.

of

Cyril Garbeit, Archbishop York, for peace in Jerusalem, the spokesman said the Jewish Agency would consider any posi tive reaction on the subject of a truce la Jerusalem from any re-

Trenches

Seoul, Mar. 29.

Koreans in the Soviet Zone were today sean "digging in" along the border between the Soviet and United States Zones of Korea.

Only 2,500 yards, from Nan Sarn Ni, an American outpost which is 45 miles from Secul, 50 Koreans were seen working in shifts to complete, trenches overlooking the border.

the

This is only one link. In network of trenches, gun-em- placements and foxholes reported being dug along the border with- in sight of the American Zonė.

work All

the along

zonul frontier began at the same time. it is not thought, however, that the North Koreans are seriously preparing a line of defence as all the work is carried on quite openly.

The Korean labourers work at the trenches dressed in white and ore visible from across the bor- der.-Reuter,

500

Is death and the minimum five years Imprisonment and a fine of $10,000.—Reuter,

WAR CLOUDS GATHERED MORE DENSELY

London, Mar. 30.

presentative Arab source so long The Yorkshire Post in its editorial today says that

ns they could absolutely rely on

that source.

The responsibility for any pro- posals regarding Jerusalem resteil with the United Nations, the spokesman added.

"as the sands run out and the termination of the British mandate in Palestine draws nearer, the clouds of war are visibly gather- ed more densely on the horizon.“

worse соп-

"It cannot be said", the paper | Dr. Husseini Khalidi, Secre tary of the Palestine Arab declared, "that American states- Higher Committed, said heremanship has done anything today: "If any danger exists during the last few days to at all to the sacred places in throw a gleam of hope across Jaruskiem. It comes from the picture... President Tru- Zionist aggression."

than's Good Friday statement Dr. Garbett, he said, could rest in particular must be written assured that the Arabs would 'down as calculated merely to shed their blood in the defence make confusion The announcement added that of Christian, Moslem-and-Jawish-founded...." the rescue of the majority of the holy places. He added the Arch- Commenting Jews, ambushed over the week-bishop should direct a warning to threat to set up a national state on the Jewish end, was the direct result of the supporters of Jewish terrorism on the day following the ter- combined efforts of the Admin- who "Initiated the bombing of mination of the mandate, the atrullon, the police thebulidings over the heads of in-Yorkshire Post said: "There can Army in

protracted

be no hope of a settlement 01 these lines. Such

statements serve only to declare the two contestants resolve to fight to the bitter end-an end which will assuredly be ̈bitter for bolh

and

the Arab commandations nocent people."

A British announcement. Bald the convoy left

wan

Jows. Killed.

Jerusalem with- out notifying the authorities of

Six Jews and a Jewess were -lts-arrangements. When-the-of- killed when their armoured ̄cur")

ficer commanding the Second

was blown up during an attack Infantry Brigade warned

the convoy on its return journey that on an Arab village in the area of Lydda, the international air- the rond had been heavily block-

pori. ed by Arabs and that it should return to the settlement of Kfar Exton, his warning was ignored.

Britons Freed

A group of 737 Jewish legal Immigrants into Palestine Teft

Haifa for Cyprus on board the

ferry ship Empire Rival. They had been brought into harbour in the Ychiam b

single-masted

-19

The announcement added that the rescue of the majority of schooner with an auxillary the Jews was a direct result of gine, intercepted by the Royal combined efforts by the Ad- Navy yesterday 05 kilometres off ministration, the police and the Palestine.-Reuter.

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hope, however alight, of better things.

truce

"One is to establish unhampered by conditions of a kind calculated to wreck it be- tore it begins. The other is that the United States proves itself ready not merely to send a token force to keep the peace....such an action would demonstrate preparedness to do something more than tender, advice which in the past has been bestowed on the mandatory power so abun- dantly and, upon occasion, with such an absence of tact.

that "We have urged before the peace can be kept only by force which la manifestly impos- sible to resist. Such a force the United States alone can supply. The best lead it.

can give to every member of the United Nations is to show that it is willing to play a part consistent with is post- tion as the strongest of the great powers."--Associated Press.

U.S. Delegation To Urge Truce

Lake Success, Mar. 29.

The American delegation to the United Nations has been instructed to press in the immediate future for a truce in Palestine and a special session of the General Assembly, a delega- tion 'spokesman said here today.

No decision had been taken on Zionist newspaper, the New York the submission to the Security Post.

Council of the American pro- In 赭 despatch tran Lake posal for trusteeship, he added. Success, it said that if the Jewish This was taken as indicating that Agency failed. to yield to "pres the United States might not bring sure" to accept something less the trusteeship plan before the then partition, some new drastic Security Council, but might wait American or Britain move may until the Assembly was called. be expected".

The United States was stated "The war of derves already in Hare to be ready to submit

to pointing in that direction. the Security Council tomorrow "Reports continue that Ameri- two resolutions—one containing can troops may be committed to President Truman's call for a help enforce a temporary trustee- trues and the other calling for ship of the Holy Land, Tho a special Assembly session. British, mareover, are letting it

The report that Britain might be known, that they might con decide to stay on in Palestine alder staying on if the Jews and was reiterated today by the pro-Arabs reach a truce"-Reuter.

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